While it would be a bit much to say that the news has been universally bad for the HD DVD camp in recent months, it would at least be fair to say that the tides have been running against them. Today, that's changed fairly dramatically.

Late last week an intriguing Radeon HD 2600 XT turned up from Sapphire,
arguably AMD's biggest graphics AIB partner. Passively cooled and still
at 800MHz, the promise of high video and 3D performance with no noise
was a big one. We took an early look to see if it stood…

Hardware.fr have published an analysis of NVIDIA CUDA, looking at the architecture of the first hardware, the software side, performance versus x86 processors running the same application on GPU and CPU, the role AMD plays in the GPU computing space and more.

Our spies on the SIGGRAPH show floor have spotted the rear end of an AMD FireGL V5600. Hark back to the very recent launch announcement at the same show and you'll remember the V5600 sounded like a clone of a Radeon HD 2600 XT 512MiB. How right that is.

Recently we reported that NVIDIA was cautioning financial analysts that manufacturing restraints could limit their growth in 2H to below the usually robust seasonality that comes with back-to-school and holiday shopping. Now comes a report from Digitimes focusing particularly on component shortages…

Following the news about the removal of the PlayStation Portable's MHz cap, which finally gave developers a free reign of the clock frequency of the CPU, Beyond3D was able to get some more details from its sources.

Yes, yes, we know we started this feature ages ago and it had a successful run of, wait for it, one, but it's back! Weekly Forum Follies is the Friday afternoon bit of Beyond3D where we round up what's happened on the forums in the last 7 days.

Onkyo USA has announced the DV-HD805 HD DVD player, marking Onkyo's first foray into the high-definition optical format war. Coming as something of a counterpoint to Denon's own recent announcement of Blu-ray support, Onkyo's HD805 will provide consumers with a more upscale option for HD DVD playback…